Thiago Almeida grew up in Brazil and lived in New Zealand for many years before joining the Microsoft team in Redmond, WA. He's part of the team that drives adoption of new technologies, focusing on cloud computing, open source, and DevOps practices.

David fell in love with code at 8 years old and began self-educating himself by learning BASIC on the Atari 800XL of his geeky father. He is passionate about anything linked to our beautiful geek universe such as Gaming, VR, AR, AI, 4K, Star Wars and accessibility.

Today, he is working at Microsoft inside the DX Corp TED team as a Senior Program Manager and works directly with the Windows product group and the MS Edge engineering teams. His primary focus is driving adoption of HTML5 standards by doing conferences, articles, demos and by writing frameworks to help web developers.

Steve Teixeira is the General Manager for Partner App Experiences in Microsoft's Windows and Devices Group. Steve has served in leadership roles at Microsoft in Windows, Visual Studio, and Visual C++. Steve is an accomplished author and speaker and has a broad base of experience in engineering leadership roles in areas such as developer tools, professional services, and mobile. Steve studied Aerospace Engineering at San Jose State University and holds an M.B.A. from the University of Washington.

Andy Wigley is a Senior Developer Evangelist at Microsoft focusing on Windows and UWP app development. He has many developer training video series for Channel9 and Microsoft Virtual Academy including the Developer's Guide to Windows 10. Before joining Microsoft in 2012, he was a prominent member of the mobile app developers' community and was an MVP for 10 consecutive years. Read his blog at http://andywigley.com.